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Jozef Koffler
… Born in Stryj and studied music in Lvov (1914-1916) and in Vienna (1918-1924). From … occupation was promoted to management positions in several music institutions. Died during the holocaust in an unknown … style was influenced by the avant-garde, but under Soviet pressure, he turned to more mainstream composition. … Polish …
Bathja [Batya] Bayer
… Germany. Taken to Palestine in 1936. Received a PhD in Musicology at the University of Zurich, and later a earned a … from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Directed the music department in the National Library (1964-1974). Was a … Judaica . Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica , magnespress.co.il . … Researcher … Bathja [Batya] Bayer …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah … “so-called” Jewish folk music in its content, themes, and expression. He valued the artistic contribution of secular …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which … of Cantorial Liturgy , published by the Sacred Music Press (an operation of the Hebrew Union College) in 1953 …
Gila Flam
… Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Music, 1988. Her thesis: Singing for Survival: Songs of the … Ghetto, 1940–45 was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Director of the Music Department of the Jewish National and University …
Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She received her Ph.D in … Her recently published book writing on Water (CEU Press, 2018; Jelek a vízen , Libri, 2014) is creative …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … sing were of very mediocre musical value, although some expressed the Jewish sentiment. Soon the High-Holiday season …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology … , which was in print for three years until mounting pressures lead to the close of the center in 1935. In 1932, …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development of … Centre. Throughout the 1960s, Levi also conducted an impressive amount of independent fieldwork, at times in …
Louis Lewandowski
… of celebrated hazzan Hirsch Weintraub , and was so impressed by his liturgical arrangements that he decided to … introduced a new romantic style heavily influenced by the music of Felix Mendelssohn. In 1871, Lewandowski published Kol Rinah U’Tfillah , a complete collection of music for Shabbat and Festivals. His seminal work, Todah …